Some of them are variously known as ettercaps, beardflowers, and rose crest-lips.
It was mesmerizing to watch the tendons shrink and curl against high wisps of flame as the spit rose, crested, and fell.
The rest of the state could be daunting, with its successive mountain chains rising like crests on a flash-frozen ocean.
But as the crisis deepened, as the flood rose to crest even bridges and attics, something remarkable was sparked by the misery the storm wrought: ordinary folk demonstrated extraordinary grace and kindness in an unprecedented private, humanitarian and relief response.
According to the generally accepted theory of seafloor spreading, the seafloor migrates laterally away from the ridge or rise crests at rates of several centimetres per year.
A gleaming hi-tech city, with homes for 40,000 residents, cinemas, shopping malls, schools, landscaped walkways, office blocks, a conference centre, restaurants and cafes, is rising on a crest within sight – on a clear day – of the Tel Aviv skyline.
He thought of his father's tomb, ornate as a palace, rising on a crest of Green-Wood Cemetery in what was left of Brooklyn.
Smoke is rising from the crest.
At the climax of the ceremony, with the sun rising over the crest of the surrounding mountains, an Elder whom I have known for years took my hand and lead me to delightfully dance around the fire to the rhythm of the Marimbas and beat of the drum.
Shares of Amazon, the e-commerce and cloud computing leader, have busily risen, recently cresting the $1,000 per-share mark.
